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Better communication channel #31

Open jhilden opened 8 years ago

jhilden commented 8 years ago

I think experience has shown that our slack channel works well for organizing and for most of the coaches, but it hasn't worked at all for our participants.

My suggestion would be to find a different channel for our participants to communicate between meetings.

This could either be a public facebook group (most of our participants seem to be on facebook) or maybe a text message channel on WhatsApp, Telegram or so.

What do you think?

tombaker commented 8 years ago

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 04:49:46AM -0700, Jakob Hilden wrote:

I think experience has shown that our slack channel works well for organizing and for most of the coaches, but it hasn't worked at all for our participants.

My suggestion would be to find a different channel for our participants to communicate between meetings.

This could either be a public facebook group (most of our participants seem to be on facebook) or maybe a text message channel on WhatsApp, Telegram or so.

What do you think?

Do most participants have email? As this message also shows, the issue tracker of colognerb/refugees has been (lightly) used for communication for the past year [1], with the advantage that messages are mirrored to email. For light traffic, perhaps that's enough.

FWIW, I have boycotted Facebook since I first heard about it in circa 2005 and would not sign up for WhatsApp because it belongs to Facebook.

Granted, that fits with the cranky choosiness of someone who still uses mutt because it is the only software that still supports the mbox format "as is" :-)

Tom

[1] https://github.com/colognerb/refugees/issues

Tom Baker tom@tombaker.org